Response Essay 'My Town': Relating To The Book

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This is my town. There is not a whole lot to do in Payson but however, there are some activities we have here in the book our town there are some similarities like it talks about going to the park and we have a park as well. There's always the park if we want to go there or we can go watch a movie there is not a whole we can do but we make it work by hanging out with friends and just having a good time. In some way, our town can relate to the book"Our Town" which is pretty neat.

One of the things we have in common is that we only have a few grocery stores we have 3 pretty big ones but other cities and town have more as well in the book they only have 1 food store but in Payson, we have 3. What's also pretty neat is that everything in Payson is so close I mean you can pretty much walk to all the stores and shops because everything is close together. Another neat thing is that Payson is pretty safe when it come to criminal activity because everyone pretty much knows each other which I think is pretty cool. And as well in the book it talks how they usually walk instead of taking a car. Main buildings in the town, including the churches, the schools, the grocery store, and Mr. Morgan’s drugstore. As you …show more content…

and they also have cops and so on. We have everything that makes a town, we have cops, Fire department, ambulance, Doctors, and even dog vets which I think is really cool. Another neat thing that Payson offers is the activities you can go to Green Vally park to hang out with friends or just go and read a book or something which I think is really cool. There is a lot of abuse in alcohol and drugs in the story our town but is way different from

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